"I've worked with a couple of Staff Engineers on different teams in the past and I've seen them do different things, but I've not been able to pin down exactly what they do." I get this question quite frequently. Sometimes from engineers looking to elevate their roles. At other times,

The macOS ecosystem loves *.dmg volumes as its main container format. However, *.iso can sometimes be the easiest to work with if you are exploring virtualization. Having a macOS installation image can be pretty handy to have in your toolbox. There are some images floating around on the internet, however,

Shipping products at scale is complicated. Work items frequently change hands often across different teams and levels of an organization. Status updates travel up and down the chain of management via a classic game of telephone presenting a lot of opportunities for miscommunication and misalignment. One particular area of misalignment

Over the years, I've seen all sorts of organizational and systemic problems within organizations that actively cause them to work against themselves. These ultimately manifest as missed deadlines and, unmet goals while incurring additional costs. One such issue I see fairly often is the Hero problem. I consider Heroes to